constructio ad sensum

Meaning

Noun

• A grammatical construction in which a word’s inflection is determined by the semantics of the word or words with which it associates, in contravention of what is required by grammar.

Origin

• From modern Latin cōnstrūctiō + ad + sēnsum (accusative singular of sēnsus, abstractly “sense”, “notion”, “signification”): "grammatical construction according to [the] sense".